leno

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Weaving in which the warp yarns are paired and twisted.

n. A fabric having such a weave.

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n. A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A very thin linen cloth made in imitation of muslin, and sometimes called linen muslin.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Perhaps from French linon, linen fabric, from lin, flax, from Old French, from Latin līnum; see linen.

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From Italian leno ("weak, flexible")

Examples

For this purpose a strip of about 2 in. wide will be enough, which, doubled over and hemmed at the bottom, allows sufficient for the net -- a bag made of the material called "leno" -- to be subsequently affixed.

To finish, tie a piece of whipcord in the holes from b to b, and sew the holland all around the net as before, leaving plenty of room for the playing of the slides; the "leno" is then sewn to this in the usual manner, and thus becomes a fixture, as in the preceding net.

About a yard of "leno" suffices for the bag, and the pieces which come off the bottom during the operation of rounding it, form "gussets" to fill the net in up to the point where the arms B and C first spring.

Over the flower pot may be strained two pieces of wire or cane, crossing each other in the form of arches, the whole covered with muslin; or a handier plan to get to the insects quickly when emerged, or to damp the pupae, is to procure from the glass merchant the waste cylinders of glass cut from shades, pasting over one end with "leno" or muslin, and placing the other in the flower pot on top of the earth or moss.